[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2010-02-18

2010-02-18 Thread Walter Bender
===Sugar Digest=== 1. The Sugar Labs Development Team continues to make great progress towards our next release, Sucrose 0.88. Last weekend a testing day was held in which most of the new features exercised. There will be another meeting on Monday (February 22) at which we will be discussing

Re: [IAEP] Kurzweil in Wine?

2010-02-18 Thread James Simmons
Caroline, The book I'm writing at Floss Manuals has a chapter on adding Text to Speech to Activities. It isn't difficult at all. We had a college student who was interested in doing something to make TTS a built in feature of Sugar. The idea we came up with was you could copy text from any

Re: [IAEP] Webinar tonight, February 17th: Math game design framework

2010-02-18 Thread forster
Maria has posted a recording of the webinar at http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/Math+Games+Framework Tony This is a part of the Math 2.0 Interest Group series of weekly open webinars. We will discuss a few game design books, see what game mechanics correspond to math ideas, and look at

[IAEP] SoaS Survey For SCaLE 8X

2010-02-18 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All You Sugar Fans, Sorry for the short timeline on this, but I just got back from South America and am putting the finishing touches on this project. I will be going to SCaLE 8X this weekend to give a presentation on OLPC and Sugar on Friday, have a booth for both on Saturday and Sunday